A Quotes
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“Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.”
“Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.”
“Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.”
“Assumptions are dangerous things.”
“Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.”
Source: The Winner
“Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.”
“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Assumptions are shortcuts through the dark, they make you feel fast, until you crash into reality.”
Source: The 4 Aces of Management: Analyze. Adjust. Ascend. Automate
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
“Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.”
“Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.”
Source: Liberator
“Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.”
“Assumptions are what we don't know we are making”
“Assumptions aren’t facts; they’re opportunities for research and testing.”
“Assumptions can get you killed. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2”
Source: One Night in Tehran
“Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.”
“Assumptions made by others indicates clearly how much people envy your blessings.”
“Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”
Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“Assumptions were a way of connecting the dots to give you a picture that worked, but not necessarily the right picture. Not necessarily the truth.”
Source: Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life
“Assumptions write the ending
before the story even begins.”
“Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...”
“Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.”
“Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.”
Source: The Voice of the Heart
“Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action”
Source: A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects
“Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.”
“Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.”
“Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.”
“Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences tru peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.”
Source: Knowing And Growing in Assurance of Faith
“Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences true peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.”
Source: Knowing And Growing in Assurance of Faith
“Assurance"
You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes. Yellow
pulls across the hills and thrums, or in the silence after lightning before it says its names-and then the clouds' wide-mouthed apologies. You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon, long aisles-you never heard so deep a sound, moss on rock, and years. You turn your head- that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down.”
“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”
Source: Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography
“Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii”
“Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.”
Source: Essays
“Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.”
“Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.”
“Assuredly the turquoise doth possess a soul more intelligent than that of man.”
“Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.”
“Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”
“Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.”
“Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.”
Source: Francesca Carrara
“Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.”
“Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.”
Source: Independent People
“Asta însemna să pierzi pe cineva? Durerea nu a dispărut nicio clipă. A fost doar... acoperită.”
Source: Sorcery of Thorns
“Astaga, memang benar kata orang : jika anda jatuh cinta, anda akan segera menjadi penyair.”
Source: Dari Mimpi Joan Pratiwi